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Linux News for Feb 26, 2002

KernelTrap.org: Interview: Rik van Riel(Feb 26, 2002, 22:36)
"This week, KernelTrap has spoken with Linux kernel hacker Rik
van Riel. Rik is perhaps most recognized for his impressive rmap VM
efforts. He's also the founder of kernelnewbies. Living in Brazil,
he works for Conectiva."

NewsForge: GPL enforcement goes to court for first time in MySQL case(Feb 26, 2002, 20:55)
"MySQL AB, the originator of the MySQL GPL database, is taking
Progress Software Corporation, the corporate parent of NuSphere to
court because it continues to distribute a database product that
links statically to MySQL's code. ...Eben Moglen, is set to provide
expert testimony in a hearing Wednesday at 2 p.m. in what is the
first court test for Richard Stallman's GNU General Public
License."

AbiWord Weekly News #82 by Jesper Skov
(Feb 26, 2002, 17:38)
AbiWord Weekly News returns from hiatus: "Biggest single news
item from the past 3 weeks is that AbiWord 0.99.2 has been
released. If you have not already downloaded it, you probably want
to do that ASAP as it fixes many many Bugs and adds/completes quite
a few features!"

Opera.com: Opera Launches Opera 6.0 for Linux Beta 1(Feb 26, 2002, 15:57)
"Opera Software ASA today unleashed Opera 6.0 for Linux Beta 1
with a wide range of speed-boosting functions and exclusive
features only available to Linux users. The earlier version of the
Opera for Linux browser, Opera 5 for Linux, has already been
downloaded and installed a record one million times..."

IBM developerWorks: Packaging software with RPM, Part 3(Feb 26, 2002, 15:03)
"RPM is a widely-used tool for delivering software for Linux.
Users can easily install an RPM-packaged product. In this article,
third in a series, Dan explains how to run scripts when your
package is installed or uninstalled, or when other packages are
installed or uninstalled."

What's new in GNU Bayonne (February 23, 2002)(Feb 26, 2002, 11:49)
GNU Bayonne offers free, scalable, media independent software
environment for development and deployment of telephony solutions
for use with current and next generation telephone networks. This
week: GNU Bayonne for Solaris; GNU Bayonne 0.7.5 release; GNU
Common C++ 2 and beyond; New Web Site Proposed; and GNU Bayonne 1.0
Early Releases.

Alan Cox: Linux 2.4.19-pre1-ac1 updated notes
(Feb 26, 2002, 10:20)
"This one has the +/o/* etc updated to reflect the 73 emails I
just sent Marcelo - just so folks know what is queued for merging
this time around from the -ac tree."

CNET/Yahoo!: Sun to charge for next StarOffice(Feb 26, 2002, 08:09)
"In a move that could undercut its anti-Microsoft campaign, Sun
Microsystems plans to start charging for the next version of its
StarOffice software, a suite of programs that competes with
Microsoft Office but runs on Linux and Solaris as well as on
Windows."